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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. rord'Palnierstort, Chaims= of the Devon and Cornwall Mining Association, is becoming - more circumspect from', experience. His Lordship, at a former meeting of that! Company, was stated to have formed intimacies with cer.S taint men, who derived. from the countenance of the noble' Lord such influence as enabled them to mislead and ruin others. His Lordship not liking, we at first took for . granted, to have reflections of such a provoking nature dispersed abroad by those unmannerly caitiffs the news papers, resolved that yesterday's meeting of the Company should be protected from any such mischance: for the , Noble Lord is said to have issued the most rigorous orders that none but shareholders should be on any account atl mitted; in which elute it. maysperhaps be surmised, that a' Mote lugubrious assemblage of faces was not to he ! met. with anywhere. But it was alleged, as :we afterystards found, that a defence of, the accused partie,s was to be broiight forward yesterday, and with the privity of the noble Secretary at War. If, therefore,' his Lordship was, on this occasioO anxious to shut out the public, he pl aced his friends under process of accusation in rather an odd predicament. He - suffers the charges to be circulated by the saucy and intractable press ; but when the answers come to be presented, the doors are shut in the reporter's faces—a proceeding to us not easily intelligible, unless his Lordship was enough in the secret to know that the de-' fence would be such as to confirm or aggravate the arcss cation. It is, hoWever, an indirect proof of wisdom to be, ." a child of darkness" rather than of light."—Times. We yesterday noticed the strange perversion of intellect which could lead the Lord Chancellor to lay:it down that there was noharm in ruining a man by a Chancery litiga tion of 'between twenty or thirty years, for having been SO as to follow that course in disposing of an estate, which Lord Thurlow had been so honest as to propose for the adoption of a vender, of an estate purchased by himself. If, according to the Chancellor's logic, a man is aware of the advantage which may be taken of hiM, under the rules of the Court of Chancery, if be fellow a certain eourse, why he ought :to avoid that coarse; and, if he is not aware of ~it, he has no right to blame the, Court ; the Court is not in fault—he might to blame his own ignorance—it being the fairest thing in the world that ignorance of trick and chicitne should entail rain on a man.. But we are not so much surprised that his Lordship can see nothing wrong in the Court of Chancery ; it is natural for hint to view the process of fleecing a man much in the same way as cook :views the process of skinning .an, eel. Yesterday, his Lordship, however, took a still bolder flight, and main ._tained that it was impossible the power of imprisoning could be abused : " If it were supposed that it was the wish of any man to keep ano th e r,unneeessarily in prison, he could only say that those who thought to, were greatly mistaken. He had never heard of mocha . man yet, And hoped he never should." -Why, then, all the invectives of divines and moralists against hard-hearted creditors, who allowed tiObtors to rot in gaol, though satisfied that they were without the means of paying one farthing, merely from a cruel and yin (fictive feeling- - --all these invectives—all the Reports of Societies for the Relief of Poor Debtors—all the state» mews made in and out of Parliament to excite compas.. tion and sympathy for that class of persons, are pure delu sion. The Lord Chancellor tells us that there never was a man kept in prison from any other but the beat of mo s gives, or kept in it a moment beyond the proper time.— Wefear his Lordship, in denying, in this manner, the i o existence of such a passion as revenge, has been led astray by his own milkiness of disposition. There are Vindictive persons, however, in the world, at many people have found out to their cost, long before attaining the age tat the end of which hit Lordship has remained In happy ignorance of their existence.—/Iforning Chronicle. The accounts front the different ,Assizes furnish addi tional instances of the marvellous facility with which both Judges; and CQUOSei recommend parties to refer their causes to,arhittation. This is a striking tritimidi of coin won sense over legal aequitements and professional habits. To be sure, =mug the class of " Learned Gentlemen," it affords no very remarkable share of self-denial ; for, having had their fees for the declarations, the pleas, the demur rers, the rejoinders and sur-rejoinders, for advising on the proofs, and for their briefs and consultations, nothing more remains for them to receive, unless it be on moving to make the award of the arbitrator a ride of Court—so that, whether the cause be at last tried by a Judge and Jury, or by a referee, makes but very little difference to shent. , But where is the common sense,of clients upon Such Occasions? Either they are entitled to. have their cause, decided by the tribunal to :which they hive, at so much ex p e nse, Appealed, or it would have been wiser to have deferred the matter itt dispute to arbitration at first, before the" Learned (gentlemen" had obtained so much of - their money. This is so obvious, anti these references are lies come so much the practice of the Courts, that we wonder parties do not see the extreme folly of paying so largely to lawyers for assistance, which • they ultimately do not re ceive. We wondel, too, that some honest lawyers them. selves, seeing the tendency of the Judges towards this practice, do not themselves establish a system of arbitra tion upon a more extensive scale than it has hitherto ex isted.. At any rate, there can be no doubt but that the topici; which give rise to half the causes which are brought into our Courts, both of Law and Equity , co uld be better .decided out of them; and are, at last, in fact, so decided, after the leWyers have in the end discovered what the party4hemselves ought to have seen in the first instance. It is most extraordinary that persons of good understands log should :suffer themselves to be led by the nose and hoodwinked by crafty attoruies, who have an evident interett in misleaug and bamboozling those whom they prOfesa to serve. it is quite aatonishing, for instance, that an intelligent anerehant or 111111 of business should surs render hif understanding for ti time to. a mere quibbling technieidist, who, after having - led hint through all the mazes of legal subtilty and expellee, coolly tells him that one or two people of his own business or profession are the best judges of the dispute which he has in hand.-- ...Does not common sense and every day's experience tell each a man that what thus become the denial resort is that, which he should have first applied to ? And why, we would ask ? can such is ma n, with any claim to pm dance or consistency, consent to be first mulct ed by these • harpies, and find himself at last none the b e t ter for the elan-Moils expense which they have entailed upon him ? .....21forniag Herold A statement having appeared in most Papers, purport ing to contain an account of Mr. Cobbett's attempted io terview with his %levity at the Royal Lodge, end which i s s i g ned by Oat indiVitittal,We are requested, by authority, to give the folloWing cenfutation of some of the errors and missatatements with which, as is customary with that celebrated writer, - his account abounds. . Mr. Cobbett states, that he explained his wishes to " the Courts New s. Writer,' whose muse is Dowsett," 411 d subsequently men tions that lie sent a note to the Marquis Convnghtun by ltdr;P., and adds, the cottage gate at 1 was is situate about,4oo yards from the cottage itself, to that to go backward and forward could not I t:,aas%tvtkenotf about more t han ten minutes, yet Mr. Dowsett wee quarters of art hour, though he found Lord e nn y ng s 11.3/s , at the cottage." Th e fact is, that: Mr. Doweett got no r ever was, a Court Newswriter ;' he is its ~ the Police rstablishmeut at t Oflice - r of the residen d it is a part of his duty to prevent the in '. 13°w-stree:' an I • r 'Arsons into the pAvate maim, o f ,tra,~4...sers ant im proper _ As far as regards the distance of • ds of his itAdjesti . grounds late at which Mr. Cobbett front the the Royal Lodgc , ia must be allowed to be an ex. wrote his note, iaar• . bee n over judge, never having; having tamely, competent ate of the time in which the the ground, and 'for his ei 4ll .irl s h"111 1 e ret" d int answer to Marquis Conynghtuu „ 1 , 3 , / a F ro m a Olotive, WOW hie note, he is equally quatioeso C 0 bbett omits to state that cessary to he 4401E1 0 0 0, 1 - • , p • es is Majesty s orter, w o ire reieivo4o 7 ll,fry attentip •••••OM • • • • p o ., iMalritli '•••• r and all the requisites a * him with the Use of his Lodge • „ , , 4 - r . , skiiinoria a eons attempt on the part of Mr. C.:to obtrude himielf, in opposition to a rule, into the • presence of his Majesty, and being disap pointed, he has published a varnished statement of his re ception, the inaccuracies of which it is -not thou g ht p ro p er should go unanswered. —Morning Post. The more we consider the subject, the more we are per-; . suaded that there is a sort of alternate rise and fall—a sort of stunmer and winter, in the state of trade, which neither foresight can prevent,nor wisdom remedy—which depends on causes, over which human ingenuity can exercise no controulwhich begins , proceeds, and . terminates by laws, as fixed and as immutable (generally speaking) as those Which regulate' the motions of the heavenly bodies.— Though we may alleviate our sufferings—though we may provide for_ such crises, by contriving -.methods to protect ourselVes against their consequences—all .the endeavours• of the human mind, as at present constituted, will be found incapable of effectually . preventing such , seasons of • cala mity. An article in the Edinburgh Review proposes three remedies for the present distress. After going into a long detail, to show that 'over-production is the - cause of the late revulsion, and making an observation on the' euCou ragement given by Government to speculation, by pro, muting the reduction of interest:, the Reviewer concludes as follows We hope we have , sufficiently indicated the various means by which the temptation to engage in these improvident enterprises may he most effectually diminished, and their pernicious comae (pence* mitigated or averted: the first consists iu the establish ment of such a system of free intercourse with other countries as would give greater steadiness both to the demand for, and the supply of, commodities the second, in placing of the currency on suds a secure and solid foundation, as would prevent such violent oscillations in its amount and value as have been experienced since 1793 : and the third, in the more general diffusion of sound infor mation among all classes of the community, but especially among merchants. The details into which we have entered show how very ill the tine principles of commerce and of money are yet understood by the public. Had our bankers and merchants been generally aware of the circumstances which determine the value of money, and the tests by which it may always be discovered when it is becoMing redundant, and when therefore a recoil iney be ex pected, it is quite impossible that the late crisis could have oc curred. The danger would have been foreseen while it was time to avert it, and bankruptcy and ruin would not have assailed us at the very moment we were boasting mod loudly of our, prosperity. The views of the writer are evidently contracted, and the remark concerning the reduction of interest is one of those to which Opposition writers have of late been so frequently reduced, a quibble against a measure, which was , originally approved by those Veil writers themselves. If Lord Liverpool might have destroyed all the means of speculation, he could then, no doubt, have prevented over production. The lowness of interest was evidently bene ficial to trade, and the Edinburgh Reviewer would do well to recall to hii recollection the remarks of that Journal on the Usury Laws the next time he takes it in his head to criticise the measures of Government. If Lord Liverpool could say to the sea with effect, " Hitherto shalt thou go and no further," he might with. reason be blamed for pro moting what is good in itself, because it has been carried so far as to become bad. • Till the Reviewer can point out how the exact proportion of supply to demand is 'to be determined, and what portion of the supply is to be as signed to each trader, he may tell us' very wisely what's o'clock till doomsday, without our being able to regulate e political machine to his time.-British Press. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COVRT OF CHANCERY, Ann. 4. THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S READING PAPERS. His Loansme stated in a case, that it had got into this state, that one Counsel said such a fact way one way, and the opposite Counsel said it was just the other way. Now in such a state of things he could do molting but read the papers, in order that he might see with his own eyes which way the fact was. He had gained more information in that way, by far, than by any statements that had been made to him at bar and yet there was hardly any thing for which► a man ware more abused than 110 was for that very Wing. Übe were to be ill natured he sho►►ld l►ke to try the experiment for one weekonly, bow dw business of this Court would go on if he were not to read the papers. lam perfectly satisfied (continued his Lordship) that the business of this Court cannot be done without the Chan cellor's reading the papers. At least, the humble individual , now speaking, whatever others can do, is too dull, has bad too little experience, and has much too little knowledge, to enable hint to dispose of the cases that come before him, without assisting himself to do justice by the reading of the papers. What is it that has occasioned the statement that I have heard at least a hundred times within the last fortnight, that such and , such • things. had never been stated before, - bang the papers ? in Tuft MATTER O►' 0111tOO11Y, A HANXIII.II.T. Mr. DuCtWoirru entered rho Conit,tand hoped be would be excused for interrupting the business :while he made a short, hut important, application. In the present matter, his honour the Vice-Chancellor had Ott ordered a supersedeas of the commission to issue; and the present motion was, that the Court would order the supersedeas to be stayed until the appeal could be heard. • . His Loaositte desired notice of it to be given at the Bankrupt Office. PRACTICE—APPEALS r►Nn REHEARINGS. Mr. HART and Mr. PARKER were engaged in a discussion upon a case this morning, which occasioned • - His LORDSHIP to make observations to thi-following effect : According to the present constitution of the Via-Chancellor's Court, which nobody could like better than he (his Lordship) did, though it would probably be improved by an alteration, and he hoped loon too; whatever the Vice-Chancellor heard, he heard it for the Chancellor ; and what was called an appeal to the Chan cellor, was neither more nor less than a rehearing.' By what he would call a misnomer, however, upon hearing appeals in this Court, there was a little feeling excited, both at the bar and else where, thinking thing. were stated bere, that had not been men tioned in the Court below ; hitt he begged to repel the observation, that things were stated here that at any rate were not before the COurt below. ITAWbf&N Alin OTHERS V. TIMG. The Somerroft-Catimiii , opened the ease in this injunction, wldchitt.u; ordered to stand over some days ago. The object of the plaintiffs was to procure the injunction of the Court, for the purpose of restraining the defendant front publishing a work called The iondalEtwyqopeclia, which the plaintiffs c h arge d t o be a piracy of a work of which they are the proprietors and entitled The Encyclopedia Metrapolitana. The copyright of this work was originally vested in Mr. Rest Fenner, and upon his bank ruptcy, and by other trjmsfers, the whole of the property of the work came into the possession of the present plaintiffs, who con sisted of various persons connected with the bookselling trade. The work was first published in the year 1821, and continued to appear in portions periodically till 1826. In the course of its' publication, a great outlay of money had been mule by the pro prietors, and very expensive preparations made for the accomplish ment of so vast a work as had been projected. It was of course that a long time must elapse before they could hope to be repaid. Ile did not deny that, from the nature of the work, and from the extensive scope which it would take, embracing, as it must do, the whole circle of human science, it was necessary for the per sons engaged in it frequently to refer to authorities. Those autho rities were also open to the defendant, or to any other persona who avowed a similar object; but if he could show to the satisfaction of the Court, that there was such a similarity in the two works that it was impossible that the labours of the defendant could have been performed unless he had availed himself of the exertions of the plaintiffs he should have done enough to raise tlte legal presumption that the fernier had committed a gross act of r piracy. There WAS one Circumstance which, of itself, would be Oitiorgtory on this point. The defendant had been able to produce 'in few torahs Whit bad cost the plaintiffs years to get tgether, and it was impossible, as he hoped to be able to show, That he could have done this unless he had Availed hitriteelf of the work which had been previously published. Ihers were many other ina t o nces which would alvo prove the defendant had copied the work of the plaintiffs. Ju the ori ginal work it had been part of the design of - the authors to user" t!i the etyntolegy of the worth. of our language, an d to show tles;ariou t e changes which had taken place from t ime to time, from tio earliest Woe of th e t urd to that which was comm on in our ow ' n example of td t c :f f h t LE p ac ia yclo . re. d l i i a o of t o t n h l e y t i l n eftin h d e at t i t t es the very tneufter which itFor example, in the original work, the wo r d dltrw," executed. f i u gu llo:V b e .u d t tl: two mean atitfi instance i S i bo th . t e h wtohrtTunset'elanhiinig: tnanatdidlii,t.!Fy a li er "—° ao. tg.hiev'eislaiseTnibi"Mipeasrahtiaveino-C v w c ys id e en w te a l s m p is ia tt; ed la, s4 jed it instance of the article. Th is error the. defendant had co stances in which the illustration of Ac l e ,,•,: •V n er ti e , e 7,.. P n Y t,; : e y ,,r were takers from Worke which either bad not been ins Wished, or were not known, or had - not been resorted to by any preceding' lexicographers. The defendant had, however, adopted all these, and had availed himself of the quotations from the works of Ro bert of Gloucester, from the, elder Chronicles, and from Dr. Percy'.' Reliques, none of which were to be found in the Dic tionary of Dr. Johnson. It was unquestionably true that the defendant might have had acceok to all ;the works, but it was too improbable to believe that he could have taken out exactly the same passages as the p l a i n tiff s . It had been decide d in the in the case of a Road Book, where Mr. printed Gose, that the copying the error Co jus u t r ic t e o G f K rose ing ,s ;s nam ßen e c w h, as proved the piracy, and he hoped that the proof here was still more striking. The Loan CisaWclti.Lon said, he remembered a similar piracy when Sir Griffin Wilson was described as Sir Griffin. The SOLICITOR-GINERAL gave several other instances in which the il4endant had copied the errors of the plaintiffs in thi words 44 Arbour," tt Ash," " Abjure, "! Arnice," " Ah 'Scan," and " Armenia ;" and concluded by paying the in jimction. Mr. SIIENCR and Mr. LORAIN? Were heard on the same aide. The Loan CIIANCELT.OR said, that in the case of an injunc tion against . the author of a book of roads, it had been held, that although he had used the words of a previous work, yet, as he had made his own measurements, he could not be charged with having pirated the former work. It was extremely difficult, in two works, like the present, to say which was and which was • „ not a piracy. Mr. Roams, for the defendant, addressed the Court at some length. He relied` principally on two points—the first was, that the plaintiffs, who became acquainted with what was called an in fringement of their copyright in March last, had waited until the end of July last before they had commenced any proceedings ; the other, that the title of the plaintiffs to the copyright which they claimed had not been satisfactorily made Out. He laid great stress upon the latter objection, contending, that parties who were not before the Court were entitled to the original shares, and that the plaintiffs did not show any means by which those shares had come into their possession. Upon these pointy Le rested his cue for the present, and brought his argument to this point, when the Court rose, having sat until five o'clock. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT.--AUGUST 4. Mr. Fr. twit applied, befor the sitting of the Court, for per mitsion to give notice of a motion for an injunction, upon as early a day as could conveniently he' named. The Vrce-CiasNetti.ox said " After the Bankrupt Peti- Cons, Sir." IN TIM MATTIK OF RAM.SDEN AND CLARKE, BANKNUM. This was a petition on the part of Joseph Hadon, praying the Court to supersede the Conirsiasion of Bankruptcy, and stay the certificate of Rarnsden, on the ground of fraud and collusion. Mr. MosTacux, on the part of the petitioner, a tobacconist, in Oxford.street, contended, from the affidavits, that Mr. Rams den had entered into partnership with Mr. Clarke, in the business of a coal-mer Chant, for the mere purpose of procuring a bank ruptcy, and defrauding his creditors. The Vice-Ctrarrcemoa went over the various facts of the case, commenting upon them as he proceeded. There could not be the slightest doubt, in his mind, that there was a mass of the broadest fraud, and the grossest perjury, throughout the whole of the pro ceedings; and although it had been his first impression that t'he Commission should be superseded, lie was now determined to adopt a different course, and would, therefore, send this case to a Jury, in the hope that a public exhibition would lead to criminal punishment. He would give' directions for two issues—first, whether there was a valid Com Mission ; and next, whether there was a concerted act of bankruptcy: Mr. Mowraoux hoped, that as the parties could be punished for conspiracy, his Honour would not pronounce a decision which must involve his client in expellee. The VICZ-CHANcsr.LoN, had twice found that a reference to the Attorney-General produced no good result ; for the rake of public justice, the case.must, go to aJury. INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT, Atrauvr 4. Peter Anderton, a carpenter and builder, was brought up; and opposed in person by a Mr. Dalkish, a timber-merchant, whO examined a great number of witnesses respecting the insolvent's affairs. The tendency of the investigation was to show that the insolvent bad made misrepresentations respecting his affairs, hub the evidence did not go to establish the fact. it appeared that his insolvency arose from an extensive speculation in building houses on the Hampstead-road. The insolvent was remanded to amend his aelleitille. Oit Wednesday evening, a special general. Meeting of the city of Loudon Literary laud tzieie tihc institution was hew, for the purpose of considering the practicability of raising a sum of mosey to build a theatre, for the delivery of lectures.—W. G. Prescott, Esq., of the firm of Prescott and Co., bankers, took the Chair. The report of the Committee stated, that from the crowded attendance given by members to their lectures, Albion Hill, the place where they were usually delivered, was found totally inadequate to their accommodation. They considered a theatre, which would hold shoot 800 or 1,000 persons, absolutely necessary for eke purpose, and that the stim requisite tar the erec tion of such an edifice was 8,000/. When they considered how much the cheapness and advantage of the amusement and instruc tion furnished to youth by the detiery of lectures was appreciated by well-inforned persons at the head of :'amilies, and when their beneficial effects were known, there could be little deubt that there was sufficient Oolitic spirit. in the city to carry' this plan into the Same complete execution that had attended other efforts of the same nature elsewhere.—(Applanse.).-At was also proposed to provide larger class-rooms for the accommodation of classes of young Men engaged irt commercial or professional pnrimits,'who were desirous of perfecting themselves in the attainment of modern languages. They, therefore, recommend that a public subscription should be opened for these purposes, and that particular advantages should be given to those meroberi who subscribed beyond their annual stti 7 seription of two guineas. After some discussion, in which De. Black, Mr. Stevenson, Mr. Green, Mr. Paylar, and others, spoke at considerable length, the report was adopted, and the resolutions founded upon it, carried. An inquisition was held on Wednesday at the Nag's Head, . Kentish-town, on the body of Mr. Augustus Barker, a medical gentleman of high respectability, and the son of an emi nent dignitary of the church. The Rev. Robert Drought, curiae of Shidwell, sworn. --d knew the deceased well before his death w hi c h happened on Saturday last. He resided at the Northern Dispensary, near St. Panora., church, in the New-road. I saw him last about twelve o'clock on Friday morning, at the Bankrupts''- court, in :BainghaVastreet, and had some Conversation with him at the time.. The deceased went to surrender himself at a com mission of bankrupt; he appeared very dejected, but spoke ration ally at first. After some conversation, be suddenly appeared to labour under great excitement. Perspiration broke .out all over his face, his eyes rolled in a singular and wild manner, and he gave such incoherent answers to questions which I put to hint, that 1 should have been alarmed, had I not conceived this violent emotion was produced by the painful situation iu which he was then placed, as front long intimacy and experience I knew him to be a man of great sensibility, end a highly honourable mind.-- The deceased felt and expressed great agony of mind at not being able to meet the full demand of his creditors. I have not the smallest doubt that that circumstance caused temporary derangement. I knew him to be very , religiously disposed ; he always spoke of suicide with the utmost abhorrence. I should also state I ant a relative or the deceased.. He drank tea at my house the day previous. I observed he put some liquid in his tea, but I cannot say what it was. He however told me it was to raise his spirits. Several other witnesses deposed to the same effect. Verdict—" Found dead in bed, but how or by what means the deceased came by his death, it does not appear in evi dence to us jurors." At Horsham, on Thursday, at noon,, the sentence of the law was carried into effect on the person of Daniel Leant', 'aged 19, who was convicted on the preVious Friday of the mut der of Benjamin Rowel, at Brightling, In Sussex. 'Hannah Russel, who was convicted with him, has been respited sine die. Ilia execution was at first fixed to take place on last Monday, and ao little was it expected in the town that an extension of time would be granted him, that the executioner was broUght doyen front London exprefei. The delay it supposed to have been for the 1 11 1 11ie n lny t ti a i t sil i li e ltrnitit p fi j u rv ; l i ii o inra se gb a l; el acid tofurther investigating his guilt, and the result having been engaged po i h n i :n l ;l i s i h n n e g y7off i h s e u t l l t e e e ft w s l a:g ol a h l i t i l:l , it e f r a `t t l e fi le u l 6, S H ‘ t t e s, ned .ad pa m r a t i bo i tt i: ; hie answer was, that he had no participation in Sir knowledge of that. crime ; and that although he certainly had been s i t . . d T guiltyr'iuiaelt of many denyinga n anlib is ou s argtihhimdeets, repeatedly u t e' e thwueal was e ely n i nei as u i o u tn:t a ctfhl i el n tthl oaefsawful the twi :lf:11 tseque as sertion of her innocence, At a little after noon, the Sacrament having been administered to the prisoner, and the nasal prepara dons made in front of the gaol, he was conducted to th e platform. His expression of count enanc e watt mild and placid, d h to be a mere boy. The r o pe having been hAtjukteag sad signal 1 0,7 1 wvs 4' gbievecno,nialin witha fe t :entente he had ceased exist. The Whale of the parties to this melancholy affair bore but an indifferent character in the neighbourhood. They had long been known to coo,gangs of daring smugglers that infest POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARYLEBONE.—A good-tempered decent looking young girl, of the name of Amelia Jennings, now living at Clapton, near Hackney, attended before the Magistrates, to complain of the conduct of a person named Joseph Pheasant, in having ob tained 61. from her, under the false pretence that he would marry her. She becaMe acquainted with him, she said, between eight and nine months since,. while in the service of Dr. John Simms, of Cavendishstreet, at whoseiesidence the defendant was then at work as a journeyman plumber.: He professed himself to be a single man, and believing the truth of what he said, she consented to receive his addresses. He soon lost his work, and under the. pretence that he was jobbing. for himself, and was short of money, he prevailed on her to lend him a sovereign. He subsequently applied to her for the loan of two more, saying. that his father, who lived below Birmingham; was dangerously ill, and he was ex tremely desirous of going. into the country to see him. She let him have the money, as well then as on other occasions, when he represented himself to be in want of assistance, so that, in the whole, he had obtained from her upwards of 61., the fruits of her industry. While she WWI atlvaneing this money, she did it under the persuasion that she was'to be married to him. Mr. RAWLINSON—Have you found out, young woman, that any part of his tale is untrue? .• The Girl—Yes, Sir, he has acknowledged that what he said to get money from me, to assist him in his work, was false. The Magistrate—Have you ever discovered that lie is a mar ried man? The Girl—Yes; before I went to George-street (now more tiltti four months since) I found out that he had a wife, anti t have duce seen her. Gibbs, the officer, also said the defendant had a wife who was now lying in. The Girl—When I found him, he abused me very much, and told me I might do my worst. His real•name is Joseph Phesant. Phesant, on being asked what he had to say to the charge, re plied that the greater part of the girl's statement was false. Mr. ItswuNsox—l think you are acting a very unmanly part in attempting to injure this girl's character. I believe 'her story, and she has said quite sufficient for •me to hold you to bail, your self in 501., and two sureties of 251. each ; but I will not bind her over to prosecute , as it will give you the opportunity of doing • justice to the girl. The parties retired for a ti►ve, when the defendant and his friend prevailed on the good-tempered girl to accept the re-payment of the money by instalments of a pound a month ; but as the Ma gistrate did not approve of the' security offered for the fulfilment of the engagements, the man was locked up till he could offer more satisfactory terms. MEETINGS OF. CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY, TUIISIMY, AUGUST 8. (At the Court of Commissioners.) is. Barlow and Doering, New-road, St. George's sugar-refiners 11 M. H. Botibol, hobo-square, feather-merchant l2 P. Beard, King,s Stanley, clothier . lO F. Collins, Pall-mall, man-milliner J. Clementson, Angel-court, St. Martin's-le-Grand, cuter 11 A. Corbett, Friday-street, merchant C. Fearnley, South Sea chambers, merchant ll F. Flaction, Berwick-street, St. James's, jeweller J. B. Galiegne, Fort-street f -Spitalfields, silk-manufacturer ll J. Gifford, Paternoster-row, bookseller C. Gruelleisen, Cumming-street, Pentonville, merchant...— l6 A. and S. Giberne, New Bond-street, milliners l2 W. C. Harwood, Crown-street, Soho, grocer W. Hodgkinson, Doncaster, grocer lO W. R. and G. Jones, Pottersfields, wharfingers lO R. Lowe, Gibraltar and Homerton, merchant l2 G. Lyne, Cecil-street, Strand, tailor . J. Monroy, Leicester-square, merchant S. P. Rolls, Old Fish -street, ironmonger S. Sears, Cleveland4treet, Fitzroy-square, ironmonger lO J. Salsbury, Stoke-Newington, builder ll W. Spooner, Chiswell-street, linen-draper R. B. Strugnell, Threadneedle-street, boot-maker ll R. T. Steveuton, Fetter-lane, and Camden-town, baker E. Thomas, Cherry-garden-street, master-mariner lO W. Tattersall, Upper Thames .street, printer ll W. .1. Ward, Askrigg, yarn-spinner M. Ward, Warren-street, coach-builder I I Witty and Moss, Cheltenham, mercers Wise and lisenehley, Maidstone, paper-makers T. Williams, Smithfield and Union-street, cutler COUNTRY MARY. R. Barney, Wolverhampton, at the Hotel Birmingham ... at Bower and Guest, Manchester—Star, Manchester 0. Bingley, New York—Hotel, Birmingham W. R. Chadwick and C. Oldham—White's, Manchester H. Coward, Preston—Commercial Hotel, Shields J. Clarke, Norwich—Norfolk Hotel, Norwich J. Charleawortb, Halifax—White Hart, Halifax Gal'more and Neter, Manchester--Star, Manchester D. Green, Uptort-upon-SevernMr. Bird's, Upton B. Halifax,' Gutter-lane—Rampant Horse, Norwich J. Homer, Liverpool—George, Liverpool P. Johnson, Runcorn—Golden, Liverpool T. Jonei, Leicester—White Hart; Leicester J. King, Boroughbridge—Vittoria,• Kingston R. Lagar, Banknewtom—Black Horse, Skipton Lax, Manchester—Star, Manchester T. Morris, Hyde—White Hart, Birmingham J. Norwood; Swinetleet—Dog and Duck, Kingston O'Neill and Martin, Liverpool George, Liverpool J. Oliver, Manchester—Star, Manchester • W. Smith, Bath—Greyhound, Bath; M. Tomlinson, Chester—Feathers, Chester Turner and Gough, Salfor,d—Star, Manchester J. Wallbridge, Newport, Rants--King's Arms, Wiinburne J. Wilkinson, Sheffield—Mr. Branson's, Sheffield 'IHE MARKETS. (From the London West, Price Current of Friday, Aug. 4, Corrost.—The demand for Cotton early in the week was checked by the holders asking a small ad vance ; it has in some ill- stances been complied with, and filtrate have sal at sid, which is a price not realised for many weeks preceding. The sales for the week ending last night inclusive are about 3100 bags ; nearly the whole for export; the particulars are-2360 Surat, 4.4 d a 54d; 390 Bengal. lid a 4-d; 360 Pernarne 10t1 and 10411. in bond ; and, duty paid, 30 Bowed. 6}d.—At a.late hour to-day 600 13engals sold qd a sd. . , Susan.---The demand for Muscovades during the week has been steady ; the sales considerable, but without the slightest variation in prices. ,The market must still be %toted to have a languid appearance. ln the Refined trade there, 4, little new . to remark ; the wholesale Grocers _continue to take considerable parcels for the home-consumption of the country ; the prices are little varied ; there are inquiries made by the shippers, but no purchases of any extent are yet reported; the Mediterranean houses are the greatest buyers lately. Molasses are 24e. 6d. The purchases of Foreign Sugars by private contract that have trtuol- . pired are about 300 cltesits Brazil ; gray and *bite 295. a 35. and some yellow Havannah about 31s. or 31s. 641. EAST INDIA Saito.—.The East India sale on Wednesday, eon sisted of 12,800 bags Bengal, 100 Siam, and 400 bags Mauritius Sugar; it went off with great spirit as follows :—.the Bengal*, which were much wanted by the trade, realised Is ago advance on the prices previously - paid by private contract; yellow damp 22. a 22,1 6d; dry 80s a 81s ; good to fine white 32s a 87* 6.1; the Siam sold from 27s 6d ft 30s ; the Mauritius 241 6d a 274. —Coiree, 2150 bags—Ceylon 404 a 45s ; 'Batavia 40s a 42s Od'; Cheribon 50s a 50. 6 ; Sumatra 39s a 41s ; 40 bales Mocha, co n ; ordinary 71s a 9446 d • very ordinary 4746 d a 495; Rice 131 a 17s. , s Correr.„—The Coffee market 'continues, to-. have a firm ap pearancegradually . lnaprov . ing, and every ad vancepo i t i i in t : l l i o e e f a l fi :t r h o n i e c e h e m e l 1 ordinary, a tn r i k r u e e it t it a ; i t n ha e en d 4 . 41 ulao F iwi r t o i e m ial.)ni di t o h dal e ti nia l:t Bp e rrio g tisv r e e h :; le t an t tt l; pression of the Coffee market, we estimate the advance gen era ll y 55. per ewt. ; several descriptions are Bs . a 6s. advanced on the lowest which sold at 42a, Coffee, which may be stated in this good Ordinary, at . the greatest depression, 4.35. a 444. proportion t 50.., tine ordinar formerly 50$. now selling at 49s a fiddling and a 524- 565. it 586., low and all colonry Coffee inthe DOW worth • g tZ od n, o p r a d rt ins im r da y' rly the coloorY realised yes terday 464 in considerable parcels. The public sale to-day con sisted of Ihh casks Jamaica Coffee ; middling, which, according to yesterday's sale sold at 60s a '72s, realised '731 and '74s• and same proportion; St. Domingo, infe rior, which was rated at 67s and 68s, sold 69s 6d and 72s : we ma ke a further advance on coloury Jamaica Coffee this day of *s per cwt. in addition to the improvement we have previously no ticed ; some good ordinary Jamaica sold at his thl a 53.6 d ; St. I Domingo, g(*)d ordinary, was Yesterday 46e, to-day there are do , sales. Tonacco.-...The purchases of Tobacco are inconsiderable, but there are renewed inquiries, particularly for the north of Europe, w hi c h may probably lead to transactions of some exte t, About 100 hhds Virginia, we understand were brought yetterd y at B#da Sid. By public sele`this foremen, to tom , Alliertroo h Tobacco good, and It chaos very ordinary St. Domingo, all taken in. Run, BRANDY, AND Hott.artns.-:=The inquiries after RUM are general and extensive ; a considerable number of shipping orders have been executed, particularly in Leewards about proofs, at Is lld a 2s, but we believe no parcels of any extent under proofs c,onld be purchased under 2s, and the orders at lower limits unexecuted are reported to be very considerable; a purchase to some extent is reported to be made by an eminent Irish house, we believe it is taken on speculation; Strong Jamaica Ram, for duty, is also in good demand ; 30 over has sold at 3s ld, and 33 over of tine quality Ss 6d.—The purchases of Brandy and Geneva are conr fined to small parcels to the trade, the former of 1825 at Ss 9d a Ss 10d ; the latter, pale, at 2s 4d, and parcels of Geneva front Bremen and Hamburg at 2s. ficiced INDlco.—The demand for Indigo continues general ; parcels command a premium of 3d. to 4d. per lb., the others abort the East India House sale prices. Setuts.—There continues to be some demand for Pepper ; light and unsifted 3 d. ; for other Spices there bare been col iderable inquiriesf but few purchases to any extent. Hors.—There is no alteration in Hops, the few of 1825 of are about 10/. ; of 1824, about 71. Woot..—There is some demand for Wool f the priers inserted have been realised ; the quantity of goods .manufactured and 6 n sale is inconsiderable. Tar.Low.—The Tallow market is little varied ; new 335. 6d. st 341. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF. BRITISH CORN, (WHICH 001111MNS naroarrriox.) For the Week ended July 29.196, made up from the Returns of the In• speetora in the different Cities and Towns in England and W 45s. ales. Wheat.—...;.......575. 4d. Oats 46e. 10d. I 4d. I Rye 41... sd. I ads. id. ------ PRICE OF SUOAR. Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the week ending the, 2tl day of Aug., lire, is Ws. 11k 1. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain. WHITECHAPEL HAYMARKET.—Aus. 3. Wk. Od. to 105 s. Od. I Od. to 435. Clover 90s. Oil. to 120 s. Od. PRICES OF HOPS (per Cwt.)--Arc: 4. Pockets. • • Bags. Kent 91 9s. 101. Os. to 111 Os. Kent • 81. 10s. to 101. 01, Sussex 81. 10s. 91. es. to 91. 12s. Sussex 81. os. to 94- tb , s : Essex 91. N. 91.153. to 101. 101. Euex. 81 Os. to 9 1 . r• Farnham, lne (Pockets) 121. Os. to 1 I. N.—Seconds, 81. Os. so 1 11. u`• Old Duty laid at 185,000/. PRICE OF POTATOES.—Avo. 4. New Potatoes bB. Od. to 7a, per Cwt. PRICES OF LEATHER. Per lb. d. d. Pei . d. d Butts ......50 to 561 b.- 19 to 111 I 'Fanned Horse lb liidei.—lt t o bt to it Ditto .....-60 to 661 b-- lei to t'l Spanish Ditto , ld Dressing Hides -4—.-- 13 to 15 I Per dozen. Fine Coach Hides -- 16 to 17 Calf Skins—.... 36 to 4011). 19 to 9 4 CtoP Hides, 35 to 401 b. Vito 14 1 Ditto ----- 50 to ;kith. 94 tor ! Ditt0.....,. 45 to 50th . 1 to 16 I Ditto '7O to both. It tol l Ditto 1 to 181 1 SraaU Seals. tireenland 19 RAW HIDES. Per Stone. s. d. 8. d. Per Stone. I. cf. Best Heifers and Steers 2 2to 2 4 Ordinary t ti to 1 Middlings -------- Od. to Os. I SHEEP SKINS. th5....b. 43 . to h. t(kt. I Sheatitngs.....---74, PRICE OF TISLLCIW, St Town Tallow 40s. *Od. to Os. Od. Yellow Russia 365, Oil. to Ds. Od. White ...--- us. Od. to Ob. Oil. Soap Ditto.-- Os. (Id. to Os. Od. Melting Stuff 90s. Od. to 90a. 011. Ditto Rough lOs. Od. to Os. Od. ,Apllow lloap per tta. 115411.. A Ye Ifsi• Mottled Graves Good PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of fllb.— Price by Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Meters) - TA. 0 4 od. id. ik I PR I erOi' --- CANDLES. The price or good Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follow' Candles, per dozen 7s. tid. to ed. Moulds, per dozen s. d. 8eaum0nt.......... 27 6 Eigbion M00r......27 6 Heaton 0 Holywelt 28 3 Killingworth ..... 29 6 Liddell's Main—..v Old Walker Coast. ing 27 0 Pelaw ire.n. SO 0 Pontop Windsor SS 0 Tanfleld M00r.....32 6 Ships at Market, rAL MARKET.—Ava. 4. 9l 0 TownleyVB ll. d il l Hartley Willington i Stone Coal Ba r° WallsEndßewleite34 , rington a 0 W. Brown's 28 61 Stone Co al rem- W. E. Hilda 28 9 1 „ trut W. E. Newrch 30 91 Walls End /Wien SS v. W. E. Northumb. 29 0 , Walls End Lyons 31 W. K reareth 28 W. E. Lambton W. E. Russell's 32 9 Russell's Hetton's,,, s relax Trader 30 0 1 Walls Ent _ , U.--Ships sold, 37 3 ,,--..Unsokl, 2t4. ----- COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK- Wheu. Barley Oats. Beans. Ah t: w er ie ttgrter * . Aylesbury 54 60 34 30 3 2 34 50 5 9 0 0 Banbury 48 158 :0 41 34 se as 56 0 0 Basingstoke St 04 30 34 El 29 50 56 U Mariann, 34 913 98 Britlpo rt 50 57 34 , 26 32 50 51 " 7 65 30 25 Canterbury 58 66 30 34 26 32 40 50 44 0 Chard 56 76 38 44 24 32 44 48 oed Chelmsford 56 68 32 35 28 32 48 50 3 1 0 Derby CA) 60 34 42 28 04 54 60 0 0 Devises 49 64 31 37 30 34. 5% 60 0 0 Dorchester 50 68 211 32 26 32 49 60 0 0 58 65 31 36 20 34/ 40 32 u Eye ~54 60 39 :16 24 28 40 42 36 Guildford. 6 0 76 30 36 28 34 50 ??, Henley ' ' ' 56 68 31) 37 26 34 50 5 1 0 "; 0 50 55 30 36 24 22 48 50 •„*, 46 Hull - 55 57 24 28 19 94 37 40 Hungerford 50 64 20 32 26 119 40 66 0 Huntingdon......, 64 71 24 26 42 4 6 _ Ipswich Lewes 44 27 a Maidstone 5O 68 31 32 27 2 95 9 43 46 Manchester ......-. 53 00 30 36 23 29 48 56 71 54 _ Newbury, 46 02 31 34, 30 35 58 n 4 0 ...a Northampton 50 62 1 30 38 30 31 5 0 0 0 Nottingham 56 3 0 "" 29 !)1 .7 ) 4 0 43 Norwich 47 58 22 32 22 27 30 4- 0 0 Plymouth 28 2". 4 j 3 Reading 55 71 30 34 22 33 4 4 0 Sherborne 50 58 26 31 20 2 8 49 '''' 3 14101brd,......,... 50 62 36 37 lid VS AS ... 0 Stowmarket 48 58 24 30 2.4 22 34 ". v n v SWalilea 711 36 0 0 Truro 3O Warminster 40 65 28 35 90 34 54 ." 0 y 50 56 27 24 44 LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE. Mat The impOrt of free Grain is extremely small , of foreig n .. ",,„ 1 it is abundant. The weather has continued fine, and the are rest — are making great progress. Should there be no change weather,' the crop will soon be placed out of its reach. "op meets with few buyers, and those only purchase wbi th , e T g ' res not avoid. Towards the close of last week ) Olt* vc" * ' t a'SJ . request, as well as Grinding Barley, at au advance of Ban tu at' per bushel; but at this day's market, which wail prettr tended, they were not so ready of sale, and barely suPP °t ;, rise. .Sortie fanners sold Wheat, of the present crop) super , to 9a. '9d.'cr bushel ; and there has arrived three two or pe r parcels of ew . Oats from Ireland, which brought 4s• 11,er r -4.51be. Oatmeal is Is. to Qs. p e r pa c k dearer • but *II n' ides are unaltered. I. j. oLD. 0 . 5. d. 5. d. I ' -; 8 4a 81., vo 0 ~., oa o o 8 5 a U Y n 0 $ a 0 73 a 8 5* 2; 0a ; 0 82a 9 9 o s" pa ; 0 78a 8 3 A' pi a . O 0 0a 8 0 „,- p a 0 4 0a 5 0 "6a '; 0 47 a 4 0 (1 pa 0 0 43a 49 8 0 # 0 e , 46 a 5 0 , I pa 4 0 4( ) a 4 1 0' 04 p' ° 4 lia 4 .. 0 p a 0 J 2 6a 2 0 AUrii 0 40a 4 4 oprii 0 7 6 4 8 0' 0 oa a t) 6 8 a 7 3 0 0., I) Aperibie flour, per 21401ba. ~,„,_ ,11 I P: r, 0 0„ :1: aft 4)'fi Oatmeal, per 2401 b s. —1 33 0a 36 0 I v o ,. 061ta American Flour , new (in bond), 241; Od. to S. V Od. per b an '' '. Ettroan (in b0nd)....................... 18a. Od. to 24,5. _ _.od Sour (o pe ut of bond) 32s. Od. to 355. Od . .a (free) ~....-,,-...........,. 295. Od. to 305. ltd. , , r , ,„,1 , , IMPORT OF Oman; for the Week en,lin6JulY'' ,s 'ss , k s '' am. 51. 00 0* , ' ?,,, k ` ' i wen?. , IA 10.P11. Bushel 701b5. Bushel 601 4 5. Bushel 451bs. ib'or. 13arro'• 7 ' - 90,787 6,030 36,965 Packs of atmeal, of 8401b5.,1%a Wheat, Enghitt, pet 71 stotch---. Canada (tree) Foreign (free) Irish red) Ditto (wt (white. Barley, English, per Imperial ......w Foreign (five) per Irish (grindlis) Scotch, per Oats, Potato (Insb), per Foreign (in Scotch ft Welch Potato, furseed Malt, Fine, Imperial Ditto, Beans na mi rte ddl r i , n tt di to t --- to Sir Cana , IRTHS. of On the 30th ult., at Brix ß ton, lkird. G. Van th f s Zel' o ' o ' burgh, daughter of George of that city, 4 } tb ,ll On the 3d inst., at e am' firm: Ririe, the hob" , b,/, Baron inuidsle, of a son and heir. I • .W On D the inst., in illarit.l ene , the at Mt .. of a son and heir. MARRIED. ,b rg On the 3d inet., a t auto. Church, by gll. 114v * S' j t e no‘s son • Geor Henry- Awes, Iv ,of Cliftuu-akir i tott t mud daughter o f the late Gideon ' Atkin', fsa q., °C Cl° Surrey. th e oi Itc late Sir i b r itlin, after a few days' illness, Catherine. " i t o f I . 1, I aged ' Nugent , Bart., an doff, niece of the late Bar i siceu 66. .; I 0 /1111 Oa the 31st ult., aged 71, Enacts, the wife of Ps''' On ) of Woodford, Essex. het the let met., after a abort 'illness, in the 17th yr° of Al , a g . , 'Sophia Fanny, only ehikl of Williant Vtiety , 1 bY-house, near Hull.; --- ...-...- 4, Printed and Published by Itt ICOIINOt at the bl/11 No. 112, Strand.